Roasting

Roasting

Portland Roasting’s coffees are sourced, blended, and roasted for quality and flavor. We buy coffee we love, and coffee we know you’ll love too. We want to offer approachable, delicious, and exciting coffees that represent the best of what specialty coffee can be.

We work with farmers and importers from around the world to source consistently excellent coffee. We hold ourselves and our producers to high standards, developed over years of working together to build strong relationships that can result in superior coffee. We don’t just buy coffee, we partner with people to improve the lives of the communities our coffee comes from.

After we’ve found great coffee, we work hard to create roast profiles that retain the sense of place, but are enhanced by the talents of our roasting team. From light and sparkling single origin offerings all the way to full-bodied and chocolatey dark roasts, every coffee and every blend has a sweet spot that we hit every time.

Every coffee is roasted carefully and intentionally. Every day, we taste every single roast to make sure it meets our standards. If it doesn’t, you don’t taste it. The care and attention paid to each roast reflects our dedication to providing you with the highest quality coffee possible. We’ve been doing this for over two decades, and we truly believe we get better every year.

Brewing

There are almost as many ways to prepare coffee as there are coffees to prepare! We’ve done the hard work of sorting through them all to present you with our four favorites. If you love the classics, you’ll want to check our French Press guide, where we walk you through one of the oldest manual brew methods available. If you like pressing things, but you’re ready to move on from a French Press, let us encourage you to try the venerable Aeropress, the tiny plastic darling of the coffee industry that gives big flavor in a little package. If you don’t want to push on anything, thank you very much, and you’re looking for something a bit more exotic, take a look at our Kalita Wave guide. We’ll show you how to get the most out of your little metal Japanese dripper. If you want to brew with something classic that is itself a work of art, consider our Chemex guide, and learn to brew with the favorite method of our own Director of Coffee. Clean flavor and easy to clean!